August 10 2008 UK Bogus bends nets Divers £250,000  A pair of divers swindled £250,000 (US$500,000) from the National Health Service for treating bogus cases of the bends.  David Welsh, 49, and diving instructor Michael Brass, 43, are facing prison sentences after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the NHS and perverting the course of justice. Welsh ran the Fort Bovisand diving centre, which had its own recompression chamber.  They paid strangers they met in pubs up to £200 to pose as divers who needed recompression treatment, they only needed only the real names, addresses, dates of birth and national insurance numbers of the supposed victims to work the fraud. Most had never been underwater and some could barely swim.  Welsh billed National Health Trusts from all over the UK £6,500 a time for treating the 37 fake victims.  The fraud was discovered when police investigated two cases of divers from Liverpool who were supposedly treated for the bends at the recompression chamber.    Full story...

August 25 2008 HawaiiArchaeologists have located British whaler sunk by bad weather in 1837 off Kure Atoll Artefacts from the remains of a wreck believed to be of the British whaling vessel Gledstanes lost for 171 years have been found off Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The artefacts include four large anchors, cannons and cannonballs. The Gledstanes is the fourth whaling vessel found in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, evidence of the area's significance as a 19th-century whaling area.  The divers who found the shipwreck were taking part in the 2008 Maritime Heritage Expedition, sponsored by NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries.  Full story...

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Last Call for Entries in The Beneath The Sea 2008 Worldwide Underwater Photo/Video Competition

December 31 is the last day for submitting entries to the 2008 Beneath the Sea Worldwide Underwater Photo/Video Competition.

Underwater photographers, digital and film, will compete for the coveted David Doubilet award for excellence in underwater photography – the Grand Prize is a trip for one on the M.V. Telita in Papua New Guinea

Underwater Videographers will compete for the distinguished Stan Waterman award for excellence in underwater video – the Grand Prize is a trip for one aboard the Nai’a in Fiji.

Underwater Photographic Artists will compete for the celebrated Jim Church award for excellence in underwater creative photography – the Grand Prize to be a trip for one aboard the M.V.Telita in Papua New Guinea

Wherever you live in this wide world, submit your underwater photographic entry to the Beneath the Sea 2008 Worldwide Photo/Video Competition.

For contest rules and entry blank visit Beneath the Sea at their Internet site: http://www.beneaththesea.org. There you may see the images of previous winners, get a set of rules and regulations, and download an application form for this year’s competition.

The winners of the Beneath the Sea 2008 Worldwide Photo/Video Competition are announced at the Film Festival the weekend of Beneath the Sea’s Dive and Travel Exposition, March 28, 29, and 30, 2008, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey.
 
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